Amulets and superstitions : the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures, with chapters on the evil eye, the origin of the amulet, the pentagon, the swastika, the cross (pagan and Christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbâlâh, ancient astrology, etc., bySir E. A. Wallis Budge ... / with twenty-two plates and three hundred illustrations.

  • Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
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1930
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Amulets and superstitions : the original texts with translations and descriptions of a long series of Egyptian, Sumerian, Assyrian, Hebrew, Christian, Gnostic and Muslim amulets and talismans and magical figures, with chapters on the evil eye, the origin of the amulet, the pentagon, the swastika, the cross (pagan and Christian), the properties of stones, rings, divination, numbers, the Kabbâlâh, ancient astrology, etc., bySir E. A. Wallis Budge ... / with twenty-two plates and three hundred illustrations. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London ; New York [etc,] : Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1930.

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xxxix, 543 pages, 1 unnumbered page : including illustrations, plates, facsimiles ; 25 cm

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